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- Sat Dec 02, 2023 7:08 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2023 ACF Winter Discussion
- Replies: 23
- Views: 7219
Re: 2023 ACF Winter Discussion
So, sorry it has taken so long to get round to this, but there's a question that needs some work and to stop misunderstandings creeping into the canon Description acceptable. According to Jean Ducat, an unclear term denoting the final stage of this system is first mentioned in the Gortyn law code as...
- Tue Oct 17, 2023 5:01 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2023 ACF Fall Discussion
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4560
Re: 2023 ACF Fall Discussion
Regarding the Cyrus Cylinder clue, I think the wording could have been more specific but there's nothing really wrong there. It has been referred to in that way, although for nationalistic purposes. The question was not attempting to assert it actually was such a charter. Yeah, this is basically ok...
- Tue Apr 25, 2023 6:58 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Summer Opens?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 7271
Re: Summer Opens?
We are very much looking for American and Canadian hosts of COOT mirrors, so please get in touch with me if you want this to happen!
- Sun Feb 19, 2023 4:56 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2023 COOT: Announcement
- Replies: 8
- Views: 8677
Re: 2023 COOT: Announcement
This happened yesterday - in a one game final, Chicago A, who had the advantage, overcame Golfers, Non-Golfers, Both, Neither (a team comprising George Charlson, Alex Peplow, Evan Lynch and Afham Raoof) 450-220. Stats for the tournament are available here: https://hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/8058/...
- Wed Feb 01, 2023 10:03 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2023 ACF Regionals Discussion
- Replies: 27
- Views: 8247
Re: 2023 ACF Regionals Discussion
7. According to Polyaenus, a person with this title was deposed in 496 BCE after minting his own coins. A “Northern” version of this title was held by Rajuvula, who ruled Mathura in the early 1st century CE. Nectanebo I and Nectanebo II supported people with this title during their “Great Revolt.” ...
- Sun Jan 30, 2022 2:09 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2022 ACF Regionals - Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 53
- Views: 25956
Re: 2022 ACF Regionals - Specific Question Discussion
Could you post the myth question on Mycenae? - I believe that at the point I buzzed in the first line (Inachos) the TU equally refers to Argos, and in Pausanias, Strabo, and a range of other ancient authors the river/river god/culture hero/mythical king is always associated with Argos and the Argol...
- Sun Jan 30, 2022 1:57 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2022 ACF Regionals - Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 53
- Views: 25956
Re: 2022 ACF Regionals - Specific Question Discussion
Could you post the myth question on Mycenae? - I believe that at the point I buzzed in the first line (Inachos) the TU equally refers to Argos, and in Pausanias, Strabo, and a range of other ancient authors the river/river god/culture hero/mythical king is always associated with Argos and the Argolid.
- Sun Jan 30, 2022 1:57 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2022 ACF Regionals - General Discussion and Thanks
- Replies: 10
- Views: 5021
Re: 2022 ACF Regionals - General Discussion and Thanks
I'd like to open by praising this set - in the areas I pay close attention to (History, RMPSS and the like), it did a very good job of challenging both newer and more experienced players, delivered on the canon of quiz in 2022, and very rarely when pushing the boundaries did I feel 'Why on earth are...
- Sun Jan 30, 2022 11:23 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Call for Collaborators: SERAPIS, 2023 Side Event
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1478
Re: Call for Collaborators: SERAPIS, 2023 Side Event
Have sent you a PM
- Sun Sep 19, 2021 11:27 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: COOT 2021
- Replies: 10
- Views: 5295
Re: COOT 2021
The packets have been uploaded to the archive
- Fri Aug 13, 2021 4:05 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2020–21 Player Poll
- Replies: 6
- Views: 7306
Re: 2020–21 Player Poll
Your ballots should include Evan Lynch and Joseph Krol -both over 90ppg on WORKSHOP, over 100ppg on SMH, Evan over 100ppg at the UK Regs mirror (where Ox A and Cam A where absent, which probably made not much difference to his personal total), Krol 44ppg at the Regs Invitational site (7th highest sc...
- Fri Aug 13, 2021 3:58 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2020–21 Postseason Poll
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4642
Re: 2020–21 Postseason Poll
in the country
(memes aside, I assume this is not intended to only rank US teams?)
- Fri May 21, 2021 9:38 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: The possibility of spectator-facilitated cheating
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4502
Re: The possibility of spectator-facilitated cheating
1. Banning spectators This would basically solve the whole problem. Understandably, organizations may want to stream matches in order to provide an atmosphere consistent with those in previous years. This solution would, however, be the easiest to implement; and if only the players can see the ques...
- Mon Feb 08, 2021 5:20 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: The Geography Front - Gauging Interest
- Replies: 36
- Views: 11834
Re: The Geography Front - Gauging Interest
Yes, I would love to play this (and imagine I would not be the only UK player)
- Tue Feb 02, 2021 12:17 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2021 ACF Regionals - Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 39
- Views: 15911
Re: 2021 ACF Regionals - Specific Question Discussion
Questions I particularly enjoyed that I can remember right now - the ancient prosthetics bonus set, the ancient Egyptian art TU (which I shamefully failed to work out, despite it talking about an object in a museum less than a mile from me), axis mundi bonus set - generally, I enjoyed this set, and ...
- Mon Feb 01, 2021 1:38 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2021 ACF Regionals Invitational (1/30/2021)
- Replies: 12
- Views: 6523
Re: 2021 ACF Regionals Invitational (1/30/2021)
This tournament had a rather ambitious schedule and its participants spanned 8 hours of timezones, but I think it worked out alright. I'm sure there are also a lot of things to be said about how spectators were involved at this tournament; I encourage any public feedback so that other tournaments c...
- Sat Jan 09, 2021 7:50 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: COOT 2021
- Replies: 10
- Views: 5295
Re: COOT 2021
Just a reminder that this set will be available for mirrors from February 13th - get in contact with us if you're interested in hosting one in your area. A reminder about this: we are looking for hosts for American/Canadian mirrors of COOT 2021 - if you or your team are interested, please email me ...
- Mon Nov 09, 2020 5:03 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2020 ACF Winter - Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 42
- Views: 11674
Re: 2020 ACF Winter - Specific Question Discussion
I thought almost all the history in this tournament was excellent, with some interesting lead ins and well organised clue orders - I will be pointing new writers towards some questions as 'how to do it' in the future. Only big erratum I spotted was this question: 18. Members of this body were requir...
- Mon Aug 10, 2020 12:23 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: COOT 2021
- Replies: 10
- Views: 5295
COOT 2021
I am pleased to announce that for 2021 Oxford University and Cambridge University Quiz Societies will be combining forces to produce a housewritten set: Cambridge and Oxford Open Tournament (COOT). The head editors for this set will be Joseph Krol and me. The set, which will comprise 13 packets, wil...
- Tue Jul 21, 2020 5:04 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: Mimir's Well Harvest League (starting August 2)
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1486
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Mimir's Well Harvest League (starting August 2)
I would highly recommend playing this, the first league was excellent, with a high standard of questions and competition
- Sun Jul 19, 2020 11:11 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Myth of the Machine Summer Discord Mirror - 7/18/20
- Replies: 18
- Views: 6148
Re: Myth of the Machine Summer Discord Mirror - 7/18/20
This was a really enjoyable tournament. The set was filled with fun and interesting ideas, and felt very highly polished as well. The logistics were really good as well from my perspective and I'm looking forward to reading your thoughts on running Discord tournaments - the only issue seemed to be t...
- Sun Jul 05, 2020 6:23 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Oxford Open Online Mirror - Saturday 27th June
- Replies: 39
- Views: 15940
Re: Oxford Open Online Mirror - Saturday 27th June
Thanks to everyone who turned out to play the finals packets last night - according to the discord scoring bot the Top 10 scorers were itamar 75 tejas 65 Erik Christensen 35 cabibbo-kobayashi-maskawa 30 Krol [Cambridge] 25 JLaw 20 r_hi 10 swapnil garg 10 Max Brodsky (High Tech) 10 Nick Jensen 5 I've...
- Sat Jul 04, 2020 10:09 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Oxford Open Online Mirror - Saturday 27th June
- Replies: 39
- Views: 15940
Re: Oxford Open Online Mirror - Saturday 27th June
I will be reading the two Finals packets tonight on the discord at 11 pm BST/6pm EDT this evening.
- Sun Jun 28, 2020 2:43 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Oxford Open Online Mirror - Saturday 27th June
- Replies: 39
- Views: 15940
Re: Oxford Open Online Mirror - Saturday 27th June
Stats are available here - Let me know if there are any errors!
Edit. Playoffs stat report now carries over the one game from prelims.
Edit. Playoffs stat report now carries over the one game from prelims.
- Sun Jun 28, 2020 11:55 am
- Forum: Databases and Quizbowl Software
- Topic: Introducing YellowFruit.
- Replies: 106
- Views: 96145
Re: Introducing YellowFruit.
When I export Full Report, I cannot upload any of the produced HTML pages to hsquizbowl apart from the _standing.html file - the others all bring up the error "Scoreboard report was not saved because it does not appear to be a valid SQBS file." etc. Edit. Also when I send the file to anoth...
- Sun Jun 28, 2020 5:32 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Oxford Open Online Mirror - Saturday 27th June
- Replies: 39
- Views: 15940
Re: Oxford Open Online Mirror - Saturday 27th June
Thank you to everyone who played yesterday, and congratulations to Vro for clearing the field, and to Will Alston for top scoring. I also want to thank my team of moderators, who did a sterling job all day - many of them kept an excellent pace during the rounds, and generally let me know quickly if ...
- Fri Jun 26, 2020 7:30 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Oxford Open Online Mirror - Saturday 27th June
- Replies: 39
- Views: 15940
Re: Oxford Open Online Mirror - Saturday 27th June
The logistics email with links to the Zoom room (and backup Discord channel) has been sent out to team contacts. Please let me know if you haven't received them (though I will not reply until morning UK time now)
- Fri Jun 26, 2020 7:28 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Running Zoom Tournaments
- Replies: 67
- Views: 33665
Re: Running Zoom Tournaments
UKQB have also issued a guide to running Zoom tournaments, which can be found here . As an aside, I'm a little, er, thrown off by the male pronouns used when referring to the moderator and scorekeeper in this document. The instances of male pronouns being used where gender neutral ones should have ...
- Fri Jun 26, 2020 8:38 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Oxford Open Online Mirror - Saturday 27th June
- Replies: 39
- Views: 15940
Re: Oxford Open Online Mirror - Saturday 27th June
I've not had an email response from MIT, Berkeley, vro, or Koyaaniscottie - please reply, or let me know that you've not got it - (MIT, I'm aware my first email didn't go through, but you've not since responded to the resent emails)
- Mon Jun 22, 2020 7:41 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Oxford Open Online Mirror - Saturday 27th June
- Replies: 39
- Views: 15940
Re: Oxford Open Online Mirror - Saturday 27th June
I have now emailed all the registered teams - let me know if you haven't received and email and expected to!
- Thu Jun 11, 2020 7:41 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Oxford Open Online Mirror - Saturday 27th June
- Replies: 39
- Views: 15940
Re: Oxford Open Online Mirror - Saturday 27th June
A reminder please for teams to register using the google form (looking at Harvard A and B, MIT, and 'vro')
Edit.
We also now have enough mods confirmed for 24 teams.
Edit.
We also now have enough mods confirmed for 24 teams.
- Wed Jun 03, 2020 7:10 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Oxford Open Online Mirror - Saturday 27th June
- Replies: 39
- Views: 15940
- Wed May 27, 2020 5:44 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Oxford Open Online Mirror - Saturday 27th June
- Replies: 39
- Views: 15940
Re: Oxford Open Online Mirror - Saturday 27th June
I would also vote against Americanization, the British content introduces a lot of bonus difficulty variance but it's interesting to listen to and does meaningfully differentiate teams in the tossups. Agreed. I would suggest, though, that the very British bonuses have easy parts replaced with thing...
- Tue May 26, 2020 6:58 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Oxford Open Online Mirror - Saturday 27th June
- Replies: 39
- Views: 15940
Re: Oxford Open Online Mirror - Saturday 27th June
Based on the experience of this past weekend's CamO, I would strongly advise against a Zoom tournament, or at least against having a team of people who aren't super-experienced with running Zoom breakout rooms being bracket captains / mods. I'd personally prefer Discord, as ICT and similar events h...
- Mon May 25, 2020 1:57 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Oxford Open Online Mirror - Saturday 27th June
- Replies: 39
- Views: 15940
Re: Oxford Open Online Mirror - Saturday 27th June
Thanks to everyone who has signed up, and especially to those who have registered so far - we're approaching our initial 20 team field cap, so I am currently seeing if we can secure enough mods to expand to 24 teams - for now, sign up ASAP to be sure of a place in the field!
- Sun May 17, 2020 5:58 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Oxford Open Online Mirror - Saturday 27th June
- Replies: 39
- Views: 15940
Re: Oxford Open Online Mirror - Saturday 27th June
The first post has been updated with the date of the tournament, and some new information.
- Wed May 13, 2020 9:56 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Oxford Open Online Mirror - Saturday 27th June
- Replies: 39
- Views: 15940
Re: Oxford Open Online Mirror
Very pleased to see such initial strong interest in the tournament - please do keep signing up! - we will announce the date based on votes received in the evening (BST) this Saturday.
- Tue May 12, 2020 10:58 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Oxford Open Online Mirror - Saturday 27th June
- Replies: 39
- Views: 15940
Re: Oxford Open Online Mirror
Tossups and Bonuses.Illinois Admin wrote: ↑Tue May 12, 2020 10:45 am Is this planned as tossups only or tossups + bonuses?
- Tue May 12, 2020 6:33 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Oxford Open Online Mirror - Saturday 27th June
- Replies: 39
- Views: 15940
Oxford Open Online Mirror - Saturday 27th June
Oxford University Quiz Society are planning on hosting an online mirror of Oxford Open 2020 on Saturday, 27th June. The set was played here in February, and was well received. The set is regular difficulty, with the science answer lines shading on the easier side. Though there are some more British ...
- Sun May 03, 2020 10:48 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Running Zoom Tournaments
- Replies: 67
- Views: 33665
Re: Running Zoom Tournaments
To back up what George said, the whole experience was massively improved by being able to see your teammates (and others) - given the length of time before we might have in-person tournaments again, a medium which aids the social side of quizbowl is one worth using.
- Thu Mar 26, 2020 8:07 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: The MONTHS TOURNAMENT: "ancient" play-in round
- Replies: 22
- Views: 1269
Re: The MONTHS TOURNAMENT: "ancient" play-in round
Well, first, as someone committed to being anti-Athenian, it is important to note that this is not the "Greek" calendar (as no such thing existed), but that merely of a single somewhat important city state. 40 seed: Thargelion v Anthesterion One of the days of the Anthesteria festival invo...
- Sun Jan 26, 2020 2:47 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2020 ACF Regionals Thanks and General Discussion
- Replies: 23
- Views: 7904
Re: 2020 ACF Regionals Thanks and General Discussion
I'd like to echo what I think is the general consensus that this was a a good Regionals set, with generally around the right difficulty, and some good ideas. The logistics side of the tournament, from a player's perspective, was a seamless as any tournament I've played in. I will be interested to se...
- Sun Jan 05, 2020 8:25 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Even GHOTIer (GHOTI II 2020 Announcement)
- Replies: 27
- Views: 7273
Re: Even GHOTIer (GHOTI II 2020 Announcement)
I hope I might be able to persuade/force some sort of mirror of this in the UK
Also, was GHOTI ever posted to the archives?
Also, was GHOTI ever posted to the archives?
- Mon Nov 04, 2019 7:17 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Fall 2019 Thanks and General Discussion
- Replies: 15
- Views: 4728
Re: ACF Fall 2019 Thanks and General Discussion
From the perspective of someone who only read it and did not see it being played, this was the best Fall set in a while, and it was definitely appreciated to receive it earlier, and with much less work needed than in the past for the purposes of Briticization
- Mon Nov 04, 2019 7:15 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Fall 2019 Specific Question Discussion and Errata
- Replies: 51
- Views: 14819
Re: ACF Fall 2019 Specific Question Discussion and Errata
Both Autenreith and Cunliffe,the standard Homeric lexica translate it as Ox-eyedArabidopsis failiana wrote: ↑Sun Nov 03, 2019 9:34 pm I feel like "ox" definitely should have been accepted for the cow tossup. I'm fairly sure that when I read the Odyssey, it referred to "ox-eyed Hera."
- Wed Oct 30, 2019 1:20 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Fall Open 2019 (November 2019)
- Replies: 10
- Views: 10335
Re: Fall Open 2019 (November 2019)
Is there any chance of an online mirror of this? I unfortunately cannot go to the UK site, but would love to play this tournament if possible.
- Thu Sep 19, 2019 1:38 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Video: British Student Quiz Championships 2019 Final
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4033
- Mon Sep 16, 2019 2:41 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Online Mirror of OCTAVIAN
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4263
Re: Online Mirror of OCTAVIAN
Stats available here, including the consolation game played between Teams 2 and 6.
- Mon Sep 16, 2019 5:37 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Online Mirror of OCTAVIAN
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4263
Re: Online Mirror of OCTAVIAN
This happened - following a round robin, the standings were Team 1: 4-1 Team 2: 1-4 Team 3: 4-1 Team 4: 0-5 Team 5: 4-1 Team 6: 2-3 Team 1 (Charles Hang and Rahul Rao-Pothuraju) were leading on PPG, so Team 3 (Robert Muñiz, Ben Ream, Michael Kearney) played a play-in game against Team 5 (Jakob Myers...
- Thu Sep 12, 2019 11:53 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Online Mirror of OCTAVIAN
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4263
Re: Online Mirror of OCTAVIAN
Discord link here: https://discord.gg/TER3pH - please join ASAP so I can assign you to your team roles, and we can double check that I have set up the room permissions correctly
Edit. I now have moderators - thanks to the volunteers!
Edit. I now have moderators - thanks to the volunteers!